A Jan. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims unnamed actors are artificially creating large-scale, destructive weather events. “First they aerosolize the sky with nanoparticles, then ...

After Hurricane Ian ravaged the Caribbean and southeastern U.S. at the end of September, a years-old conspiracy theory about the government being able to control weather resurfaced on social media.

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is not capable of creating or modifying the weather, as suggested in online posts saying it was used to create October floods in New Mexico.

A Jan. 12 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) questions if the weather was being controlled to affect the results of the Iowa Caucuses. "Is the Deep State activating HAARP to disrupt the Iowa ...